LOTR Castmember Quotes
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Quote |
| Dom | Crying | I balled my eyes out to Billy Elliot last week and Lighe (Elijah Wood) and I are gonna watch it again tonight. So I will keep you informed on the Wood waterworks. |
| Dom | Socializing | Being immersed in such a stunning location, you couldn't not be swept away by the romance of it all. On our days off we would hang about on set and soak up the atmosphere. Nobody kept themselves to themselves. |
| Elijah | Sports | Well, the four hobbits, we all learned how to surf. So some of our time was taken up by surfing, which was great, and actually, Billy Boyd, who plays Pippin, became very good at surfing and still surfs quite a lot. We also just spent a lot of time together: going to movies, going out to dinner, going out to the pub and having a few pints of beer. There was a little bit of snowboarding involved. That was quite fun. Some people did some bungee-jumping. I think we just generally spent a lot of time together as friends. We did all sorts of different things. |
| Liv | Hanging Out, Scenery | I love them all, all my costars. We would hang out mostly in the hair-and-makeup trailer, and after work at dinner. We would eat all the time and drink wine and laugh. I was always like, 'Let's go get dinner!' We all lived in houses, some of us in apartments. Orlando and I lived right around the corner from where Peter lives on this beautiful bay, up on these cliffs, and we had just the sea in front of us. You wake up to rainbows and dolphins. So, we had each other and work and some of the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen |
| Orlando | Hanging Out | It was quite amusing to see the cast on a night off in Wellington. The Hobbits would be picking their feet, and the Elves would be picking their ears. |
| Orlando | Bungee jumping | As soon as I got to New Zealand, I went bungee jumping. I was standing on the platform for one hour contemplating whether to jump or not. |
| Orlando | Bungee jumping | One day, I did the highest bungeejump in New Zealand. Five times in the space of half an hour! I knew the producers wouldn''t be too pleased about it so I only told them afterwards." |
| Orlando | Surfing | I felt that we needed to do something outside the movie just to keep us all sane. So I was like, 'Let's get motorbikes!' and the guys were like no, they weren't into that. Eventually I said, 'Let's buy surf boards.' I hadn't surfed before. We just walked to the beach with these brand new, sparkling boards and in our new little wetsuits. The other surfers were looking at us like we were idiots. And the water was freezing. But we ended up being quite good at it. |
| Sean A Official Fanclub Magazine, 2001 |
Sports | We did everything - bungee jumping, surfing, motorcycle riding, we did it all. Sightseeing, taking in the America's Cup regatta - we were the Fellowship around town in New Zealand. |
| Sean B | Social life | Wherever we went, there would always be somebody's parents, because the young guys had their parents over. It was sort of a thriving sort of social life. We were all together, very much as a group, living very close to each other for a year and a half. I'll always remember it, because I made some great friends over there, and it's a great country. That's a great way to spend your life, isn't it? I mean, it was for me, and every day you'd be thinking, This is brilliant. |
| Viggo | Time off | We'd have Sunday afternoon to do laundry and have a beer, and then before you knew it you were back on the battlefield. |
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